Category: Windows Server

Use powercfg.exe to control power plans—also called power schemes—to use the available sleep states, to control the power states of individual devices, and to analyze the system for common energy-efficiency and battery-life problems. Syntax Powercfg command lines use the following syntax: powercfg /option [arguments ] [ /?] where option is one of the options listed in the following table, and arguments is one or…Read More

System Requirements The Rust server can be taxing on your host but maybe not as much as you would think. As a baseline a 3 square km (default gen size) map freshly generated will run at close to 2 gigabytes of ram. After some stress testing and 150k entities later, can use 6+ gigabytes of memory….Read More

PowerShell is one of the most powerful things built into Windows, so of course it can do something as simple as list your installed programs. In fact, all you need is one command, which you can copy and paste right from this page. First, open PowerShell by clicking on the Start menu and typing “powershell”. Select…Read More

So a work colleague installed the Server 2016 Evaluation version recently whilst we awaited our MSDN keys, problem was with the MSDN keys now available he couldn’t activate the Eval version as it reported that the Edition cannot be Upgraded. Fortunately a quick DISM command will resolve this allowing you to activate – Open a CMD…Read More

SyncToy is a great tool to help you keep your files and folders synced between drives and devices. Here’s how you can make it do sync automatically so your files will stay synced even if you forget to sync them. By default, SyncToy only synchronizes your files when you run the program and directly tell…Read More